Recent content by Joe Broady

It's possible to use an image of the title page as the download link. I don't know how it's done, but I have seen someone do it and it's a big help. I some cases I already have the same basic manual but wouldn't mind getting a version from a different year.

From the November 1957 issue of the SAC magazine Combat Crew is this story of an RB-36 that lost its rudder during a practice bomb run. I've seen pictures of the rudderless B-36 in flight but this is the first I've seen about what happened. There were 27 on board because "this was the last month...

You guessed right. the ARR-8 was on the RB-36 (recon/ferret version of the bomber). "Magnesium Overcast" by Dennis Jenkins (2001) quotes from an introduction to the RB-36 ECM, written for a USAF training class circa 1953. "The RB-36 aircraft contains four ECM positions. The frequency range...

Where are they doing the engine runs? I wonder if the old B-2 engine run hangar at Plant 42 has been refurbished. Back in the day, you could run engines "indoors" with the hangar doors closed up to takeoff thrust (so I heard). There was a similar hangar at the Edwards AFB South Base complex. It...

The Safety Screen in the February 1958 issue of the Strategic Air Command magazine Combat Crew is a list of SAC's safest crews. The 7th Bomb Wing crew S-19 is notable for the high rank of its members: two lt. colonels, three majors, and four master sergeants. I guess the lowly A/2c got stuck...

A Belgian F-16 was destroyed on the ground in 2018 when the gun on another F-16 accidentally fired. Were the causes of this mishap ever released? All I find are early reports of the accident. Mechanic accidentally fires Vulcan

In this Popular Mechanics article from October 1963, editor Kevin V. Brown flies in the back seat of a George AFB F-104 with Capt Charles Tofferi, winner of a fighter weapons competition at Nellis AFB. I Flew with TAC's Top Gun Brown mentions one of his other articles where he rode in an...

A collection of the USAF magazine Flying Safety from the 1950s is online at archive.org. Flying Safety They also have issues of the SAC magazine Combat Crew from the 1970s/80s. Combat Crew (archive.org) Google has a smaller collection of Combat Crew, but it includes issues from the 1950s/60s...

Confessions Of A Navy F-14 Fleet Pilot Turned F-5 Aggressor

American Heroes Channel recently aired a 1-hour program on him. It was one of a series called "Air Aces" or something like that.

"In late April 1965, the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nevada, conducted an evaluation to determine 'the most suitable offensive and defensive maneuvers' to defeat MiG-15/17-type aircraft. Lacking any flyable MiGs, the air force used five North American F-86H Sabres provided by the...

That doesn't say much for his understanding of engines. Surely the P-400 had a manifold pressure gauge. It would have indicated pressures impossible for a naturally aspirated engine. In many airplanes, part of the drill before engine start was to note the MP reading. During run-up you would...

In this Popular Science article from 50 years ago, author (and WW2 fighter pilot) Kevin Brown flies in an F-106 with Maj. Ed Woelfel of the USAF Interceptor Weapons School out of Tyndall AFB in Florida. Their mission is to stop a Navy strike force. Brown doesn't get much from the first...

The Aviation Archives site has a Flight Operating Instructions document for the B-36A, AN 01-5EUA-1, 15 October 1947. First flight of the XB-36 occurred in August 1946, so this manual is an early look at the B-36. The performance charts are based on calculated data since flight testing is...

"The 3-bladed propellers are Hamilton Standard, hydromatic, full feathering controllable pitch, constant speed. Toggle switches on the pilot's pedestal electrically control the governors which maintain the constant speed feature." (Pilot Training Manual for the Liberator B-24) In this photo...